Green Cartoon

By Yong Ho Shin

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Recycling

Recyling is the process that turns products at the end of their useful lives into new product.
It generally prevents the waste of potentially useful materials, reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage, and hence greenhouse gas emissions, compared to virgin production.

Recycling Facts & Figures

In 1999, recycling and composting activities prevented about 64 million tons of material from ending up in landfills and incinerators. Today, this country recycles 32% of its waste, a rate that has almost doubled during the past 15 years.

While recycling has grown in general, recycling of specific materials has grown even more drastically: 50 percent of all paper, 34 percent of all plastic soft drink bottles, 45 percent of all aluminum beer and soft drink cans, 63 percent of all steel packaging, and 67 percent of all major appliances are now recycled.

Twenty years ago, only one curbside recycling program existed in the United States, which collected several materials at the curb. By 2005, almost 9,000 curbside programs had sprouted up across the nation. As of 2005, about 500 materials recovery facilities had been established to process the collected materials.

Just remember that the purest form of recycling is reuse. The thing you don't need may be necessary to someone else.

http://earth911.org/recycling/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling

Do you want to learn how to make recycled paper?

Check this site:
http://earth911.org/for-students/teachers/games-and-activities/learn-how-to-make-recycled-paper

Recycling Advertisement Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKW3O11AatY

Poem: How Green is Our Borough

How Green is Our Borough

Eve Taylor

How green is our Borough? Is it barren and bare?

Is it stripped of its beauty? Do we really care?

Dereliction and eyesores mount up everyday,

Made worse by the rubbish that we throw away.

In each empty garden or plot of waste land,

We could plant flowers to make it look grand.

Don't fill up our air with car fumes and smoke,

It's polluting the atmosphere, which isn't a joke.

Global warming, right now, dominates the news,

So stop and look at the items you use.

Is it CFC free?....... Is it harmful to man?

Just read all the labels, it helps if you can.

Lovely young trees line the road to the strand,

Put there for our pleasure, and all open planned.

They'll look so attractive, if allowed to grow,

If they are not damaged by children we know.

Our Borough is changing so much day by day,

So if we all help in our own little way,

By keeping the environment clean and protected,

We'll reap the rewards, just as expected.

About this poem

In the year 2004, the Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council of the United Kingdom held a poetry contest for World Environment Day (5 June). Everyone in the community was invited to write poems that commented on various aspects of the local environment. One of the winners of this contest was Eve Taylor, whose poem How Green is Our Borough focused attention on maintaining a clean, healthy and beautiful environment.

http://www.ecology.info/how-green.htm